Writing 'Rebel'Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause: "I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."Charles Nafus

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Blood and FeathersCockfighting may be illegal, but that doesn't keep people from enjoying the controversial sport.Rob Simbeck

"Gladiator" may be rewarded come Oscar time, but "Mission: Impossible 2" is both superior entertainment and superior art. Stewart Stern haunted L.A.'s Juvenile Hall until he found the characters to populate "Rebel Without a Cause." The real substance of "Pop and Me" emerges in the relationship between director Chris Roe and his father. Also, projection-artist Luke Savisky, the new "Shaft," and more.

His deadpan humor, wry social commentary, and shameless bitchery have led critics to mention David Sedaris in the same breath as Mark Twain, James Thurber, and Dorothy Parker. Aleksandar Hemon, a native of the former Yugoslavia, has written a collection of stories which range from the surreal to the all-too-bloody real. The bourgeois bohemians (bobos) are running America these days. Plus, a darkly humorous metaphysical satire from Tim Parks, and more.